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Friday, November 7, 2014

Another
squatter tried to take over a home in Detroit. I strongly suspect these events
happen everywhere but they seem to happen more often in Detroit. All's well
that ended well in this story but the fact remains that were it not for the
local Fox station embarrassing the police department into doing its job this
woman could have lost her home to the aggressive transsexual hoodlum.
We talked about this squatters problem before in this post two years prior.
I love the memory of my city. There are even today a lot of good people who
live therein. Most people are good. Or rather most people don't have the
audacity to think that they can just move into someone else's home without
permission. But there are also a lot of people who view any sort
of niceness as weakness and who are constantly on the lookout for weakness.
Such people are the human equivalent of white sharks. Once they detect
"blood in the water" so to speak, they attack. There have always been
people like this and there always will be. That's not Detroit's problem.
Detroit's problem is that people who behave like this are ever so slightly more
numerous as a percentage of the population, perhaps because the authorities are
overwhelmed with more serious crimes like rape, murder, assault, child abuse,
and drug trafficking. So the authorities don't take crimes like this as
seriously as they should. I mean we must set priorities, no?

But
even though I would agree that a squatter is not the highest priority in a
bankrupt city that's awash in violence, I would also say that the city, state,
and county need to make sure that squatters do not get the idea that their
crime is victimless or that they somehow are not committing a crime. Because if
an investor or homeowner doesn't have the belief that they will still have
access to their home if they temporarily leave it or try to sell it, they may decide that the risks of owning
property in Detroit are not worth the costs. And that will prevent any sort of widespread renaissance in Detroit, no matter how much money is sunk into downtown or
midtown projects.

Watch
the two videos and let us know what you would have done were you the homeowner.
Because I would have woke up this morning and got myself a gun but I've been accused of being
hotheaded...

Another
squatter tried to take over a home in Detroit. I strongly suspect these events
happen everywhere but they seem to happen more often in Detroit. All's well
that ended well in this story but the fact remains that were it not for the
local Fox station embarrassing the police department into doing its job this
woman could have lost her home to the aggressive transsexual hoodlum.
We talked about this squatters problem before in this post two years prior.
I love the memory of my city. There are even today a lot of good people who
live therein. Most people are good. Or rather most people don't have the
audacity to think that they can just move into someone else's home without
permission. But there are also a lot of people who view any sort
of niceness as weakness and who are constantly on the lookout for weakness.
Such people are the human equivalent of white sharks. Once they detect
"blood in the water" so to speak, they attack. There have always been
people like this and there always will be. That's not Detroit's problem.
Detroit's problem is that people who behave like this are ever so slightly more
numerous as a percentage of the population, perhaps because the authorities are
overwhelmed with more serious crimes like rape, murder, assault, child abuse,
and drug trafficking. So the authorities don't take crimes like this as
seriously as they should. I mean we must set priorities, no?

But
even though I would agree that a squatter is not the highest priority in a
bankrupt city that's awash in violence, I would also say that the city, state,
and county need to make sure that squatters do not get the idea that their
crime is victimless or that they somehow are not committing a crime. Because if
an investor or homeowner doesn't have the belief that they will still have
access to their home if they temporarily leave it or try to sell it, they may decide that the risks of owning
property in Detroit are not worth the costs. And that will prevent any sort of widespread renaissance in Detroit, no matter how much money is sunk into downtown or
midtown projects.

Watch
the two videos and let us know what you would have done were you the homeowner.
Because I would have woke up this morning and got myself a gun but I've been accused of being
hotheaded...

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